Sara Takanashi won the World Cup opening in Lillehammer ahead of Sarah Hendrickson and Anette Sagen. The weather conditions in Lillehammer were much better today then during yesterday’s mixed team event and so the first individual competition of this winter was really a nice and fair one. Many athletes showed up in a really impressive form and so this competition ...

The Norwegian team won the inaugurating World Cup competition on Lillehammer’s K90 ahead of Japan and Italy. The hosting nation Norway won the mixed team competition that opened this winters’s ski jumping season. The team consisting of Maren Lundby, Tom Hilde, Anette Sagen and Anders Bardal won the competition, that was influenced by difficult weather conditions with a total score ...

A mixed team-event on Friday and an individual competition on Saturday will inaugurate this winter’s World Cup. The Ladies’ second World Cup season will be kicked-off tomorrow in Lillehammer, Norway. The first two of 17 scheduled World Cup competitions will be held there on the K90/HS100 hill. On Friday ladies and men will jump together in the first mixed-team event ...

Germany’s Veronika Zobel successfully underwent an arthroscopic knee surgery today. While most jumpers already made it to Lillehammer to prepare for the World Cup opening on Friday, Germany’s Veronika Zobel had to go under the knife today. After already having problems with her left knee for some time, she now had a keyhole surgery at Hessingpark-Clinic in Augsburg. The volume ...

Anette Sagen won the Norwegian Championships in Rena ahead of Jenny Synnøve Hagemoen and Gyda Enger. There is still one week to go until the kick-off of the World Cup, but the first competition of this winter was already held. The Norwegian Championships were held on Saturday on the K99/HS111 hill in Rena. Anette Sagen won the competition with a ...

The upcoming winter season will be a special one for the Italian team, as the World Championships will be held in Predazzo / Val di Fiemme. During the last year Evelyn Insam from Val Gardena established herself as most constant Italian jumper. Ladies-Skijumping.com editor Stefan Diaz talked to her. Ladies-Skijumping.com: Evelyn, how are the preparations for the upcoming winter going? ...

The French National Team used the first weeks of October for an intensive and interesting training camp. At the moment the team consists only of Coline Mattel, Léa Lemare and Julia Clair. Caroline Espiau is still recovering from an injury, but if everything goes right she will be able to jump again in the mid of November. During the last ...

Sabrina Windmüller won on Sunday in Einsiedeln ahead of Bigna Windmüller and Gianina Ernst. National championships were not only held in Slovenia and Austria this weekend, also the Swiss Championships were held. Winner on the K70 hill in Einsiedeln came Sabrina Windmüller with a pair of jumps of 72.5 and 71.5 meters. Her sister Bigna Windmüller followed on the second ...

Daniela Iraschko wins in Villach ahead of Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and Katharina Keil. Daniela Iraschko won the Austrian Championships in Villach today. With jumps of 89.0 and 90.0 meters she was eventually one point ahead of Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, who was leading after the first round, but finally came second with jumps of 94.0 and 85.0 meters. Distant third came Katharina Keil ...

Katja Pozun won in Kranj ahead of Ema Klinec and Spela Rogelj. With jumps of 106.0 and 100.5 meters Katja Pozun won the Slovenian Summer Championships that were held today on the K100 hill in Kranj. Pozun won already the National Winter Championships that were held in February at the same place and so currently holds both national titles. Second ...